Thank you for volunteering! Commencement would not be possible without the involvement and support of Georgia Tech faculty and staff.
Be a Commencement Volunteer!
Join the volunteer team to assist with this semester’s ceremony, and help make this achievement wonderful and memorable for our new alumni. We have a number of ways you can pitch in:
- General Volunteer: Available to help where needed, when it’s needed during the ceremony.
- Field Movement Management: Guides students to and from their seats and the stage during the ceremony. This volunteer shift is about two and a half hours long.
- Interior and Exterior Guest Services: Provide exceptional customer service to guests, including guiding them to their seats.
- Graduate Entrance Directional Assistance: Help manage graduate line traffic, ensuring each graduate is wearing the correct regalia and has their GradPass.
- Graduate Seating Assistance: Assist students in finding their seats, and make sure they are seated when the ceremony begins.
- Seating Assistance: Guide guests requiring accessible accommodations to their seats in the appropriate assigned sections.
- Volunteer Room Assistance: Assist volunteers with headsets, answer questions, etc., and prepare the room for the next ceremony.
College of Computing Volunteer Information
Volunteer Parking
- Saturday volunteers can park in the Visitor Area 1 (Burge Parking Deck) or Wardlaw Center (TBD)
- Wardlaw parking deck passes will be sent.
- Volunteers should print out the parking pass and place it on their car’s dashboard while at their shift.
- Contact person for the day: Sharon Hamilton – 404-484-7620
Volunteer report times and locations:
- Volunteers report location TBA
- Breakfast will start at 8:30 am
- Volunteer Room – 9:00 am
- Volunteers will report to designated locations by 10:00 am
What to wear:
- Black business casual pants
- Georgia Tech sweatshirts will be provided
- Comfortable shoes
- Lanyard will be provided and must always be visible – “Ask Me, I’m a Volunteer”
- Dress for weather conditions on the day – Commencement happens rain or shine
Volunteer Roles
Graduate Guest Services
- Locations: Bobby Dodd Field along the path graduates will take to the stage)
- Line Management (Guide students from their seats, on and off stage, back to their seats)
- Field Movement Management (help manage graduate line traffic)
- Ensure graduates have correct regalia and GradPass
Guest Services
- Locations: Concourses near Gates
- Help point guests to the appropriate locations
- Provide exceptional services to guest by answering questions
Volunteer Room
- Locations: 8 AM – 10:30 AM, Student Success Center, President’s Suite
- Then shift to one of the Guest Services Sections
- Help all volunteers get ready for their assigned shift
- Time Management
- Assist with the distribution of radios
- Oversee catering preparation
Stage Crew Assistants
- Locations: Behind Stage Right and Stage Left
- Ensure all VIPs (Dean, Chairs/ADs, Speakers) have everything they need – know where to enter the stage, seating, run of show
- Point of Contact for AV Services
- Ensure Run of Show is onstage and followed